Nana Jashvili

Nana Jashvili (; Russian: Нана Яшвили) is a Georgian-born Austrian classical violinist. At the age of 17 she won the Premier Grand Prix at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, among the youngest winners in the competition's history; she also received the Prix Spécial for her interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Tzigane. She subsequently won the Concours Musical International de Montréal. She holds the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR and performed as a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonia. A representative of the Russian violin school, she studied with Leonid Kogan at the Moscow Conservatory and later served as his assistant. For over thirty years she was a professor of violin at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. After settling in Austria she founded the international chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Arpeggione in Hohenems.

Early life and education Jashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, into the Jashvili musical family. She began violin studies as a child with her father, professor Luarsab Jashvili (Georgian: Luarsab Iashvili). At the age of 15 she won the All-Caucasian Violin Competition, open to young musicians from the Caucasian republics of the Soviet Union, and in the same year performed as soloist under the baton of Aram Khachaturian.

She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Leonid Kogan, later serving as his assistant.

Competition career At age 17, Jashvili won the Premier Grand Prix at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, among the youngest winners in the competition's history and the first Georgian laureate. She also received the Prix Spécial for her interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Tzigane. In the 1967 rankings, the other placed violinists were Andrei Korsakov in second place, Teiko Maehashi in third, Jean-Jacques Kantorow in fourth, Tomotada Sō in fifth, and Catherine Courtois in sixth. the Moscow Philharmonia, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her conductor collaborations included Claudio Abbado, Karl Böhm, Aleksandr Dmitriyev,

Kammerorchester Arpeggione In 1990, Jashvili founded the Kammerorchester Arpeggione in Hohenems, Austria, serving as its artistic founder and permanent soloist. She brought to Hohenems a network of international conductors and soloists from her performing career, and the ensemble was adopted by the City of Hohenems as its municipal chamber orchestra. Among those she invited was Gari Petrenko, who served as concertmaster; it was in Hohenems that Gari's son Kirill Petrenko — later chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic — began his international career as a teenager.

Teaching Jashvili taught at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen for over thirty years. Her students hold positions in major German orchestras.

Family Her son, Gia Jashvili, is an Austrian violinist with an international career as soloist, concertmaster, and pedagogue.

Her sisters are the violinists Irine Jashvili, a professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and the well-known violinist Marine Jashvili, a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Instrument Jashvili plays a Nicolo Gagliano violin.